alyson mcgregor: the evidence based health champion approach
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Health Policy Summit
The evidence-based health champion approach
Alyson McGregor, Director, Altogether Better
Chair: Ian Blunt, Senior Research Analyst, Nuffield Trust
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Introduction • Changing role of the NHS• Paradigm shift• 3 prototypes & 45 innovation sites in
General Practice has led us to stumble across a new model for general practice which is designed to meet these challenges
• Citizens/patients play a pivotal role in meeting this challenge working closely with General Practice.
“Health Champions
are people who
voluntarily bring
their life experience
and their ability to
relate to people to
promote health in
different
communities.“
What’s special about Altogether Better?
•Gives a VOICE to CHCs – a national platform to tell their stories
•Strength in numbers
•Building and sharing the evidence base
•Making the case
•Connecting potiticians, policy makers, decisions makers with people in communities
The consultation and the right conversation
• The core of health care lies in the conversations that
patients have with clinicians and other health care
workers
• A productive way to improve the whole health service is to
transform the way the NHS does business by supporting
really good conversations with people patients and
communities.
Outcomes
• Health improvement
• Service Improvement
• New business model for General Practice
• Potential for better commissioning outcomes
Impact
• Change in the relationship between the practice and the community
• Shifting the boundaries between the community, primary and secondary care
• Emergent impact
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